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September 03, 2019 | The National
Indonesian ISIS Orphans Face Uncertain Path to Reintegration
The Indonesian government is focusing counterterrorism efforts on prevention through education.
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January 22, 2019 | The National
America's New Policy in Africa Is an Attempt to Contain Chinese and Russian Influence
To many, Trump's new economic and security strategy looks like a desperate scramble to regain power in a region where much of the goodwill traditionally extended to the U.S. has evaporated.
November 19, 2018 | The National
China in Africa: An Increasingly Uneasy Marriage of Interests
While governments are happy to be wooed by multibillion-dollar loans and large-scale infrastructure investment, feelings on the streets are less warm.
November 09, 2018 | The National
Sudanese Militias Moonlight As Poachers in Central African Republic's Badlands
Raids in central Africa's Chinko Nature Reserve reveal a dark connection between armed groups and the illicit wildlife trade
June 23, 2011 | The National
Taliban are Only Successors to Generations of Invaders
Now that the Taliban have taken over most of the villages in Balkh province, residents wonder what's next.
March 06, 2010 | The National
Separatism grows in Southern Yemen
In the rural villages around southern Yemen, the signs that a separatist movement is growing are unmistakable.
Residents fly the South Arabian flag – a red, white, blue and black symbol of the former South Yemen – outside their homes, and paint it on shop fronts, street signs or on the stocks of their guns.
Since South and North Yemen united in 1993, there has been a growing sense of dissatisfaction in the southern provinces, but it was only three years ago that movement gained an organisational structure.
August 14, 2009 | The National
Against the Law
July 31, 2009 | The National
From the Inside
"In your opinion, were the anti-government demonstrators on the streets Westoxified?"
I never expected to have to answer such a question – much less to have my freedom depend on it. It was my third week in Tehran's Evin Prison and the start of a second round of interrogations. The first wave began after my arrest on June 17 and ended when I signed a confession admitting to the administrative crime of working as a journalist in Iran between 2004 and 2007, when I lived and studied in Tehran.
April 10, 2009 | The National
Salt of This Earth
Iraq's agricultural sector is in serious trouble. The crisis is much worse than one bad growing season, and the explanation goes far beyond drought. David Enders reports from the formerly fertile crescent.
January 02, 2009 | The National
Greek firebombers strike again: is this a portend for Europe?
Democracy is a Greek word. And so too is apathy… and chaos and tragedy: rather more fitting epithets for the instability churning Greece.
November 16, 2008 | The National
A contemporary Greek tragedy
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http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081116/ONLINESPECIAL/329487276
September 18, 2008 | The National
New Model Army
The al Aimmah bridge has been closed since 2005, and the Iraqi army guards both sides to prevent anyone crossing from Khadamiya to Adhamiya – two Baghdad neighbourhoods that are essentially polar opposites. Khadamiya is named for the shrine of the seventh Shiite imam, Musa al Khadim, while Adhamiya is home to the Abu Hanifa Mosque, where the 8th century Sunni Imam Abu Hanifa an Numan is buried. On August 31, 2005, nearly a thousand Shiite pilgrims headed to Khadamiya were killed in a panicked stampede on the bridge after shouts went out warning of an imminent suicide attack.